The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown